Memeorandum

June 01, 2019

Too Busy Mocking Obama To Enjoy The Joke

"Some of you may be aware our gun laws in the United States don't make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon any time. Without much, if any, regulation, they can buy it over the Internet, they can buy machine guns," Obama told the audience.

Machine guns?!? Yeah, yeah, nonsense.

But here's the kicker, and let's go to the videotape! Come in at the 40 second mark. What does the crowd do after Obama says "Anybody can buy any weapon any time"? They go nuts! What, did Brazil score a goal in the World Cup?

The public is not happy. Back in 2006 they rejected by referendum an attempt to further limit civilian access to weapons. And their current President, a former paratrooper and law-and-order candidate, ran on a "Suns out, guns out" message:

Bolsonaro won the presidency by running on a far-right, law-and-order platform, and often delighted supporters at campaign stops with his signature “guns up” hand gesture. His maverick presidential run energized a base of rural landowners, Christian conservatives and free-market hawks who yearned for a tougher response to years of rising violence and political graft.

The temporary decree, which will expire in 120 days unless ratified by Congress, is likely to thrill his supporters, but many others fear it will only worsen violence in Brazil. The country suffered a record 64,000 murders in 2017, the most in the world. Nearly 45,000 of those homicides involved firearms.

A former paratrooper who took office on Jan. 1, Bolsonaro eventually wants to overturn a 2003 law that effectively banned the civilian purchase of guns.

“To guarantee citizens their legitimate right to defense, I, as president, will use this weapon,” Bolsonaro said, holding up the pen he used to sign the decree.

BREAKING: Mueller spent months investigating a conservative D.C. think tank because it advocates an America First foreign policy and hosted a Trump speech in 2016
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I wonder which think tank this is.

NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION, NO NOTHING! “What the Democrats are trying to do is the biggest sin in the impeachment business.” David Rivkin, Constitutional Scholar. Meantime, the Dems are getting nothing done in Congress. They are frozen stiff. Get back to work, much to do!

I will associate myself with DrJ and Henry’s comments about statistical process control/Six Sigma/all the other variants. I had a brief unfortunate stint at GE where it was thoroughly overused and misused.

I’ll extend that to various flavors of software development process where I could go on and on.

Both are signs that you have a management who lack understanding of the work.

On @MeetThePress “Nothing could be further from the truth” Mick Mulvaney answers to @ChuckTodd’s question “Did @realDonaldTrump rush tariffs out the door to divert from Mueller statement.”
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Boy, talk about a one-track mind, Chuck Todd has it.

Exactly right AB. Deming came to Ginormous Research about 40 yrs ago and gave a lecture. I was impressed with his success in Japan. But when we started our own company and buyers of our unique products started imposing all that ISO crap, we pretty much blew it off. Either buy our shit or let your operation continue to suffer for the lack of quality without it. Kinda like a Catch-22 for them.

Looking back over my career, there was always a boss that considered every employee as interchangeable with some yet to be hired stiff. So all the TQM and 6-sigma was a way to make them interchangeable. Might work making cars or phones, but anytime the environment isn’t predictable to 6-sigma, it’s just monkey motion for useless MBA middle managers.

This state of mind is why self driving cars will be the crowning disaster of the 21st Century. The outside world is not predictable to 6-sigma.

HUGE: Investigate Mueller political attack on @realDonaldTrump; New Docs show FBI helped Hillary Clinton just before the election; AND Hillary Knew: Was Warned Twice About Blackberry and Email Use -- @JudicialWatch Mega Update: https://youtu.be/lz-FSYDHwQw
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In other words:

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Incredible: new Strzok-Page emails show FBI leadership (including FBI top lawyer James Baker) rushed to turn over FBI email investigation docs to Hillary Clinton just before the election.

What all that “smoothing” provides is ample trading fun when it all comes unglued, like it has since Bernanke left the building. Draghi’s departure in October will go a long way to finish things, but it’s Kuroda that remains the final fly in the ointment.

Mortgage fraud as a laundry tool, for example, was a great example of one of the things that was going on in 2004-2006 since no one was actually looking at the paperwork. Laundry requires a transaction somewhere on a financial institution’s books.

"I think it's time we had a real world discussion about "Flying Car Absence Disorder", or FCAD. FCAD happens in adults 50 and over, otherwise known as "The Generation Still Waiting on the Flying Cars We Were Promised"."

Good Morning! MM,that is funny! Between driving back from Florida last month and driving between DC and Durham,NC last week-end,there was lots of FCAD. In fact,driving back with the daughter and son-in-law last week-end,we had a discussion about road rage and would some drivers be as rude driving in the sky as they are on the road. :)

I am truly a victim of FCAD, though in my case it's more JAD, "Jetpack Absence Disorder." I get that they are heavy and of course can burn your backside badly, but weren't we to have work-arounds by now? I really, really wanted a jetpack.

--They went on to become an economic power that at, one time, threatened US manufacturing, until mis-investment in real estate brought them down for over two decades.

China is looking very similar. It exports some very fine products, but a lot of what they export is dreck that doesn't last long.--

The differences between them are more significant than the similarities.
The malinvestment in real estate was a symptom not a cause. Japan has a somewhat centralized economy that suffered a debt fueled universal bubble in the eighties. Their solution to that was to shovel more debt into the boiler and so for thirty plus years they have stagnated. They're still prosperous but the lost wealth that would have been created is cumulative and vast.

China has followed a similar road only on a much larger absolute and relative scale. There the similarities diverge.
China is run by murderous gangster totalitarians. It's gigantic debt fueled bubble is in service to their gangster ideology. Japan has at times had regional ambitions. China has as well. Now, with communism as their guiding light China suffers global ambitions.
But they suffer an inferiority complex and paranoia much greater than Japan does especially since at the same time China was devolving into the dungeon of Mao's dilapidated castle Japan was being forced to open up and grow up by practicing self governance for the first time.
A communist Chinese empire and gulag that has already conquered and subjugated their near neighbors and that has worldwide ambitions is a whole different kettle of fish than a relatively free Japan that can barely muster the political will to defend itself.

When IC chips are designed, designers need rules specifying the minimum size shapes or minimum allowable spacing between shapes that will ultimately be printed on the chips, resulting in wiring or transistor features, etc. These rules are partly determined by the tolerances associated with the various patterning and process steps in a given technology.

I was once responsible for generating these design rules for a major tech company and actually had to explain to a clueless upper manager why 6-sigma rules would result in less dense, larger, lower-yielding chips than what we were currently building, and therefore a giant step backwards in competitiveness.

As others have pointed out, simplistic 6-sigma thinking can be dangerous.

MT, if you were here, you’d get a solid bro-hug for your 9:51. Been saying that for years too.

I’ve imagined executives sitting around complaining at the salaries they have to pay for good software types, wondering how they can cut that cost: “If we could reduce this to a bunch of checklists to follow, we could get trained monkeys to do this”.

The whole entire enterprise of “software process” can be read as a grand search for the right checklists. That someone might still actually need to understand the problem they’re solving, and be creative, never occurs.

--I always wanted to be a journalist but could never figure out how to make money at it.--

Really? I thought you were smarter than that, clarice.
You're in DC; call yourself a Dem, write a bunch of turgid, cutesy-wootsy, powers-that-be-butt-kissing-that-you-pretend-is-speaking-truth-to-power prog lies and condescension and then sit back and watch the cash flow surge.
Who knows, you might even be able to afford having Flatop Friedman as your next door neighbor.

Speaking of Trump's virtues, here's something I didn't know about until this week (gee, I wonder why):

Back in early 2018, before Senator McCain passed away, the Secretary of the Navy officially added him as a namesake for the USS John S. McCain, originally named for his Father and Grandfather.

If you think the SECNAV did that without the President's concurrence, you're an abject idiot. That the Senator until his dying day and now his family *still* shits on him every chance they get is the height of petty classless ingratitude.
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at June 02, 2019 10:46 AM (ijEPD)

Great Pieces, clarice.
It demonstrates just how bassackwards we now have the process.
Instead of a congress of adults investigating, impeaching and removing a president who could then be prosecuted, we now set up a petty mandarin to criminally investigate him, but with the knowledge the petty mandarin will not indict nor can impeach him. The end result is political chaos and chicanery without any satisfactory resolution.
And there is a fundamental and irresolvable conflict at the certain of the whole thing; if the AG or Deputy AG is in control of the investigation and exercises that control the investigation is as much a sham as if the AG were doing it himself. If he doesn't exercise control you have an extra-constitutional loose cannon with no real accountability.

It's like both parties decided to insert a provision in the constitution to plant a barely accountable mole in an administration. But as always only the Dems will take full advantage of maximum mole insertion...which is not to be confused with Richard Gere's policy of maximum gerbil insertion.

1. Mulvaney on and says he believes there will be accountability. Has full confidence in Durham, the woman working with him, and Barr.

2. Dem rep from NJ on who wants to work on the new NAFTA and immigration. Says his constituents want them to start working. Says ther are other dems who want that. Problem is will Pelosi bring it up for a vote.

She says this is the rep from the area that she grew up in in NJ and there are a lot of GOP constituents. He says he is in the "problem solving" caucus and a blue dog.

Also, some pundit said Clyburn was on CNN saying impeachment has already started.

manuel trans, I have seen Sonny Landreth several times as for a few years there I had a musical obsession about all things related to Clifton Chenier, zydeco, or just Louisiana in general. He puts on a good show, but in my opinion, his material was just a wee limited, and his band, which was just a trio, needed another vocalist. Toured with a drummer who did something that was truly visually astounding, which was that he threw his drumsticks up in the air and caught them in between each beat. I stared and stared and could not figure out how it was possible. I think that drummer was Mike Burch.

If I am not mistaken, Six Sigma, TQM, The New Paradigm et. al. are all the result of good companies, making good products but then going out and hiring Booz-Allen-Hamilton, McKinsey, Anderson. Mega-Engineering-Construction went through all of them but never replaced Steve, Jr's. simple objective for every project: CSQCS or Client Satisfaction, Quality, Cost & Schedule.

The problem is you hire a consultant for some unknown but everyone-is-doing-it rationale and pretty soon you are spending millions, involving the organization in these silly mapping sessions when they should be doing CSQCS. Pretty soon, there is the inevitable cost-cutting routine and the first program you jettison is the consultant and their sexy new thing.

Wash-Rinse-Repeat.

I still have all the banners, paperweights, books, CD's and power points that I use to show Frederick how these distractions take you off your purpose and track.

McKinsey even scammed Ginormous Research sometime after I left. Not sure if any of the hustle stuck, but they did move steadily away from their core strength of having a bunch of small groups who were the best in the world at what they did and were clever at banding together to do bigger more complex jobs. Eventually they just got good at doing monthly progress reports and PowerPoint presentations.

Friday night I caught John Pizzarelli and his Trio, Phillip Bailey and his band pulled from the local pool, Ann Hampton Calloway backed by The Urban Knights, ending with Ramsey Lewis backed by The Urban Knights.

Spectacular show where I learned two things I should’ve known going in.

One, Maurice White was Ramsey’s drummer before founding that other group with Phillip, who was also part of Ramsey’s rhythm section.

Two, Phillip also wrote (and toured) with Phil Collins, since only one of the two could read or write music.

Is it possible the DOJ under Barr intentionally disobeyed an order from Flynn’s judge so that the judge will be forced to rule that Flynn’s due process rights were violated and that all charges are dropped?

McKinsey seems to be the lowest common denominator in bad thinking, wasnt David Cameron from there, Turnbull might as well have been.

One thing I noticed is many of these players in Israeli UK American intelligence who make it big in the private sector are progressives black cubes giora eland, now k2 and blue voyant Goldstein and co. So why is it necessary to go to war with Russia now when it mattered you couldn't anger the Soviets I think I answered my own question.

The Daily Beast doxxed the identify of the guy who posted the meme video of Pelosi acting like she was drunk. Turns out he was a black conservative who was anonymous out of fear of people finding out he was a conservative. The backlash against the Daily Beast is deservedly trending.

I finally got around to reading the "Pieces" and must compliment you on the succinct but thorough demonstration of Mueller's incompetency. I can't believe he was the best RR could find to do a job Sessions should have never created.

NO RAIN FOR YOU: No rain Saturday and no rain today means this is the first dry weekend in #Indianapolis since Feb 2 & 3.☀️ #INwx
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Of course, this will be made up by rain in the forecast Tuesday through Saturday.